Mounting a USB camera

[Tony Nelson]

At 2:28 PM +0000 1/10/06, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> It sees the device, but is unable to recognize it as storage.
>> You may be out of luck accessing it as a mass storage device unless
>> there are some drivers I don't know about.
>>
>> Have you tried gphoto2 to see if you can access the camera that way?
>
>I must admit that the last time I tried gphoto2 was quite a while back,
>so I'll give that a go tonight.
>
>Is there anyway (other than opening it up) to find the chipset of a
>camera like mine?

You gave the vendor and product IDs as Vendor=0979 ProdID=0224.  Google
around for them.  The numbers on the chips may not be of any use anyway.
Your camera uses a vendor-specific protocol.

Most cheap cameras don't use standard USB Class protocols, but use Vendor
Specific protocols, and so require a different driver for each camera.  If
the camera came with a disk for MSWindows, that disk probably contains the
required drivers for MSWindows.  There probably aren't any vendor-supplied
drivers for Linux, and the specification is usually a trade secret.  (I
used to work on MacOS USB camera drivers.  I don't remember all of it.  I
haven't done any of this on Linux.)
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